Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins is a big-budget studio actioner that arrived to theaters everywhere with a giant thud in the Fall of 1985 and quickly fell into pseudo-obscurity. We’re not even really sure what about this film baffles us the most. Was it the utter abandonment of all the sex and violence that made the original series of pulp novels so much fun? Maybe the not-even-cool-for-its-time casting of a white dude as a Korean martial arts master? Perhaps the hour long training montage? Or the incomprehensibly thin plot and casual misogyny? Possibly the loud, repetitive hero theme any time the audience starts to nod off? Perchance the criminally underused Wilford Brimley? Yes, this would-be All-American blue collar answer to James Bond - even made by several key people who had worked on actual Bond entries - was supposed to kick off a whole new series of movies. Until it tanked at the box office. HARD. We go off about all that’s wrong with Remo Williams in this occasionally cogent look at one of the more forgotten artifacts of Reagan-era cinema!

Here is a link to the Auralnauts Star Wars video we referenced:https://youtu.be/BwsMYJdmutQ

| 0:00 - Intros

| 7:15 - Auralnauts - STAR WARS Reimagined: The Empire Strikes Back

| 11:00 - Harley Quinn (animated, 2019)

| 16:25 - Marvel Cinematic Universe

| 20:50 - The Mandalorian (Disney+, 2019)

| 26:45 - Red Dwarf

| 32:45 - Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Craig Safan - Main Title - Remo Williams The Adventure Begins

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| Clip from Auralnauts - STAR WARS Reimagined: The Empire Strikes Back

| Jefferson Friedman - Harley Quinn TV Show Main Theme

| Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian (Theme)

| Ian Hu, Mark Lambert - Red Dwarf Theme

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Clips from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

| Tommy Shaw - Remo’s Theme (What If)